A Rose For Emily Mental Illness Essay

Mental illness is a real disease. Going through life pretending nothing is wrong and fake smiling through all of the pain. In William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily,” the main character, Emily Gierson, is depressed and suffering from mental illness that eventually takes her over. Throughout “A Rose for Emily”, her illness worsens to the point that she is isolated and lonely after her father's death. Homer Barron, her new profound love interest, strikes her eye as he is telling her that he will be in town for the next couple of weeks while he is working on the sidewalks outside. Emily and Homer start dating and Emily finds out that Homer is not a marrying type of suitor. While Emily deceives Homer into thinking that she is ok with

As Faulkner is describing Miss Emily in the beginning of the story, They rose when she entered-- a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt…… looked bloated…. Eyes lost in the fatty ridges of her face.” “Faulkner”. Faulkner dedicated a paragraph to describe Miss Emily. Throughout these details an image starts to form and the image makes readers feel as if they are experiencing this story. Faulkner uses his expertise to give examples of imagery, “They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there and in all the outbuildings.” . The townspeople could not stand the smell that had been coming from Miss Emily’s home, after having a conversation, they finally agreed on going to her home at midnight and sprinkling lime to contraband the smell after about two weeks, it worked. With the examples of evidence I have shown, Faulkner uses imagery to develop his way of describing the presentation of certain town folks and the pungent smells coming from Miss Emily’s

Emily went to get poison for “rats”. As the druggist was listing some poison that is specifically used for rats, Miss Emily said, “Arsenic…Is that a good one?” (Faulkner) Emily wanted arsenic to kill “rats” but the druggist knew that arsenic was not not a normal drug used to kill rats, so he was skeptical. After Miss Emily had the arsenic, she took it back to her house and put in Homer’s drink and he died. But, what the towns folks did not was that, “The man himself lay in the bed…Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. After Emily murders Homer, she takes him and puts him in a bed where she would be sleeping with him for the next 30 years. Faulkner uses his combination of vocabulary and whit to create a subliminal